The "Bunny Ear" hypothesis: How defective DNA looping may contribute to cancer

Your DNA forms thousands of "bunny ear" loops, like those of a shoe lace. Your DNA creates "genetic neighborhoods" within each bunny ear loop. These neighborhoods bring distant genes and specific gene control switches into close proximity. The December Genome Advance of the Month highlights a landmark study in Nature that describes what happens when two genetic neighborhoods merge in brain tumor cells.
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